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What bugs me is the fact that we are forced (not a default list, not an opt out list, forced with no alternative if you want to use IE) to defer to Microsoft's judgement on what is a "flash appropriate" site and what is not. Did Newgrounds make their list? Shockwave? Pogo?

Quite frankly, I don't trust them with that power. This is the company that just got off of "monopoly probation".

I'm starting to really tire of this trend where developers lock away even power user settings (like the ability to decide what fucking plugins run in your browser) in the name of "security".
totally agree here. this applies to everybody, regardless of occupation. continuous learning!
"Everybody's code should look the same. Ideally, there should be no way to look at lines of code and recognize it as "Fred's code" by its style."

This is how one endeavors for mediocrity within a creative pursuit. Crap gets polished to a bronze sheen.
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and? why not use progn?
> I have serious doubt this call was made for any reason beyond pushing users to their app-store

Never thought I'd be saying this, but it looks to me like they want to push everyone away from Flash towards web standards like HTML5.

> I would not trust web-sockets to be left alone if they seriously would start to threaten the app world

Windows 8 hasn't even been released yet, so 'app store' apps hardly hold an entrenched position worth protecting. MS needs open standards and a thriving crossplatorm ecosystem more than anyone.
Microsoft is being like Apple; like Apple, they know Flash isn't a good answer for tablets and mobile and they're guiding people towards something that is. In fact, Microsoft is pushing developers towards HTML 5.

Note that desktop IE 10 supports Flash and other plug-ins just fine. I run Windows 8 preview on the computer in my ham shack and I find that do almost all my browsing with the desktop IE anyway. I just use the Metro IE to visit QRZ, which is a web application for looking up call signs and logging contacts.
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Thank you so much for this. I honestly spent half this summer waiting on the emulator.
Would be nice if this page - http://ace-subido.github.com/css3-microsoft-metro-buttons/bu... was included in the zip as an html page.
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This is a question to the design-minded folk here: (who can explain possibly with science)

1. Why would MS chose to use non-rounded buttons?

My understanding is that rounded corners draw attention to content in the middle because they require less cognitive strain.[1] As far as I know, the only reason these buttons are/can be successful is if there is marginally more space between the edges and the content. (thus instead of rounded corners drawing the attention inwards, the large blank space is)

[1]- http://www.uiandus.com/blog/2009/7/26/realizations-of-rounde...
This isn't about skeuomorphic design or lack thereof. Take a look at the examples page, at things like button groups or button strips. They're grey rectangles, and the only way to tell that they're clickable buttons is if you mouse-over them. This is a problem on a touch device because there's no way to trigger that state.

In fact, each example group has a grey rectangle in the top-left corner that says "Example" and the distinguishing feature is that it uses a bolder font in a lighter shade of grey. But otherwise a user might think it's also a button. So I guess when you say it's got to be incorporated into a Metro-style design, you just really can't have any other colored rectangles on the page anywhere lest they be confused with input right?

I'm not saying this to be critical of the author. I think he/she did a fantastic job, and the buttons look really well done for Metro style.
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It's a provocative title but I feel the logic is flawed. If you want to start a business, then do so. If you want to find a job, then do so. Focusing on what you're trying to achieve is more likely to produce results. Focusing on something else in the hope that it will have unintended consequences is just perverse and probably highly ineffective.
Nice work, I would definitely use this in a project that needed metro^H^H^H^Hodern buttons.

Like ThomasQue, I think you need to put some button examples on the home page. I wasn't entirely sure what a metro button was going to look like.

The aliasing of the icons looks a little off (I'm viewing on a retina MBP, so it stands out against the crisp text). Zoom in and you'll see what I mean. The edges are not crisp in the right places. The circles don't look perfectly rounded. The plus has unnecessary aliased verticals, etc. Perhaps start with a higher quality vector and scale down, taking care to align the sides with a pixel border.
I think the ones with dates do but I use my calendar directly for items like that, I use my task list for tasks with no time dimension.
Slightly puzzled how this is a surprise. I've been amazed that they've managed to sell hardware without any of their own support for some time. Nobody else gets away with it unless it's rebadged for someone who does have a call centre
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I've been looking for a metro-style framework for months. I have fallen head over heels for the flat look of MS's new style, particularly something like outlook.com

More components would be awesome!
I really like what you've done. I also like that you built it on top of Foundation, which I've just recently discovered and love. :)

One thing I'd like to see is the focus style. Searching through your code it looks like you do have support for it, so I guess it's just a request for something to add to the demo page.
Read the guidelines http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/jj193557%28v=vs.8...

> We place sites with Flash content on the CV list if doing so delivers the best user experience in Internet Explorer 10 with those sites. For example, how responsive is the content to touch? Does it work well with the onscreen keyboard, or affect battery life? Do visual prompts comply with the Windows Store app user experience guidelines? Sites that rely on capabilities (for example, rollover events and peer-to-peer (P2P) functionality) that are not supported within Windows UX guidelines for Windows Store apps, and don't degrade gracefully in their absence, are better off running in Internet Explorer 10 for the desktop with Flash.

It sounds to me like they're just saying they don't want plugins screwing up their shiny new UI. If you want to run your arbitrary plugins, just do it with the classic desktop version of the browser.
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I would prefer that the creativity in software development does not come from where you put your parenthesis or spaces. The creativity is in the solutions.
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Hacker News is a great meetup and the original London tech meetup for real hackers and startup folks. Highly recommended for newcomers. Other good meetups to checkout are Silicon Drinkabout and Digital Sizzle.
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Shane Morris @shanemo (ex 'softie designer UX guy) gave a recent talk on Being Authentically Digital with Win 8. He stated the same thing. Also that the human brain is wired to recognise T shapes making the Windows 8 start menu layout a problem.

My guess, they didn't want it to look like an iOS screen.
I would love to hear more about shifting the "offering commodity skills" to "I produce measurable business value" mindset. From Patrick or other HN'ers.

My career path has always been very conservative, e.g. "What skills do I need to be employed by corporations at salary X?" Even today, I struggle with a strong and compelling internal voice that says "oh, learn blub and enterprise platform ZZZZ" and then you will be seen as more valuable.

I know this is a extremely limiting mindset, but breaking free to a new viewpoint has proven difficult.
There's no philosophy behind Microsoft doing this. They simply did it because they want their Metro design to catch on, regardless if that makes for a better web or not.
Does this block apps like Spotify from displaying songs you are listening too? I'm curious as to how strict they will be about this.
Apparently Gruber never had to suffer through an offline/static designer struggling to make sense of designing something interactive (i.e. the 90s and early 2000s). And the better they are the former, the more difficulty they seem to have with the latter, so a "world class book designer" would be unbearable.
Note that there's also jQUIT, which has Windows-8-like themes for jQuery UI components.

http://jquit.com/builder/
Could not reproduce the bug on Safari OS X 10.6.8, the button becomes enabled as soon as the error message is displayed. Will test on OS X 10.7.
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My question is - why does Postgres need its own scheduler? Shouldn't that be the job of the OS? Is it a legacy thing or just something to squeeze out a tiny bit of extra performance?
The key words here are "by its style". There's still plenty of room for creativity in how you structure the code, how you approach solutions, etc., which is where the creativity belongs. Mediocrity is not overcome with creative spacing.
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I disagree. The Common Lisp community commonly has had the advice to be sparing with macros. Dan Weinreb (of ITA and the Common Lisp standard) mentioned this about ITA pre-Google. Paraphrasing from memory, "You can use functions anytime. With macros you need justification. With reader macros, you need a LOT of justification."

The conventional advice is not to go nuts with macros. In normal Common Lisp code, you don't need to write many macros. And when you do, they're typically with- macros.

Now, you can be a heavy consumer of macros. That's something else. Like using the LOOP macro all the time, for instance. The DEF... forms too. If you're building a powerful new abstraction, like OOP or the metaobject protocol, then it's great to have powers normally reserved for language designers.

Also, see Rich Hickey's points: (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366661)
Noted :) along with everyone's comments. Compiling all the stuff people might need and all your comments, would make an update in the following days if I have time.

You're right, maybe a single HTML template alongside the download would be great.

Thanks again!
This doesn't sound like Linux almost broke Postgres. It sounds like Postgres is doing things (scheduler) that it should not be.
>A company that generates $300M per quarter has a "real" business, despite your disdain […] //

Did you miss the bit where they use $400M to generate that gross revenue?

How do you think they're going to save > $10M per month to put themselves in to decent profit? Which costs will they cut?
This is my understanding too. And I think the Metro look is going to perform particularly poorly when it is isolated to navigational components on a webpage while content follows whatever other visual form.

IMHO the real MS interface isn't very desktop/mouse friendly and the reason it works is because all of those square buttons are the only thing you can activate in the metro screens. If I put one rounded button in the metro interface I'll bet it would get clicked far more often than the other interface elements. It wonder if they tested it vs a more humanistic version?
>It sounds to me like they're just saying they don't want plugins screwing up their shiny new UI.

The end user's shiny new UI. That's why this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Why not just make Flash click to enable? That'll stop ads and most other shenanigans while still making things that users want to access (and haven't been blessed by MS for whatever reason) still able to access them.
We use SSL. As you might have noticed, we don't have any software that needs to be installed to use our service. We use the operating systems inbuilt 'Drive Mapping' feature, and all the communication is done over SSL.

Also, we are different from BackBlaze in the sense, ZapDrive appears as a different drive on your computer, so you don't need to save the same data on your hard drive. The downside is, you have to be connected to the Internet to access your files in ZapDrive.
It will have more information about what is trying to be achieved than can be given to the kernel with the available (across all platforms where possible) API. More knowledge/more specialised means it can have greater optimisation.
There's a load of little things that are gotchas, but an example that pops into my head is that it wasn't compatible with default jQuery for example. If you didn't ask specifically for a content-type of application/json, which jQuery didn't by default, it would throw a hissy fit. It meant mucking around with the ajax object meaning you couldn't use certain jQuery shortcut methods. Regardless of what you 'told' MVC to do.

So there's a bunch of things it's doing you're not even aware that it is nor have asked it to do.

Think that was MVC 3? I've been using it since the first version, it's much better than it started (the original JSON support was awful), but you still every now and then get a WTF moment.

For example I still really have no idea the 'right' way to return 404 or 500 error pages. I swear they change their mind every release.
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That's definitely a major concern. Super's in EVE definitely had a lasting and IMO detrimental impact on the landscape of the game. But that's a different issue entirely
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Likely not if they're able to make profit from it...
As a small town southern boy who moved to the "big city" (Charleston, South Carolina), I'm actually interested in seeing photo series like this. Maybe one day my city will be up to that level.
>"Aside from no faith in management, what else could be the reason for the discount?"

At this point Zynga could be liquidated and still produce value. But the lower-than-book valuation implies the fear that Zynga will eat into its assets (re: cash) before that has a chance of happening, thus lowering its value.

So, basically, no faith in management...
That's an interesting one, I'd guess Spotify would be whitelisted if not as they started using the open graph before the public launch.

Most apps hook you in to click from seeing a post on someone else's timeline and auto posts what you're looking at to yours like a virus. Spotify posts because you've decided to share what you're listening to and it's disable-able. It's slightly less passive.

Social Cam sold at a good time, Viddy on the other hand are going to have to try and convince investors they're worth their $400m valuation.
Different lawsuit against the libraries that gave those books to Google to scan.
Not to trample on copyright or patent, but it's "visio-style" in-browser circuit drawing. And it's fast. This might not be good for designing your next motherboard, but it's great for hobbyists! I'm excited to try modeling an MCH430 on here.
Oh of course, I don't mean that as a dig towards you - it's great that you found something that was needed and implemented it yourself, which you've done very well. I guess it's more towards Microsoft for taking a concept that is relatively well ingrained by now (I'm referring to buttons with bevels, gradients, and shadows), and turning it on it's head in a seemingly backwards way.
Bunker App (https://www.bunkerapp.com)

Bunker is my SaaS solution which I market to freelancers and consultants who are looking for a complete solution for their small business (from creating quotes and proposals over project management and time-tracking to invoicing and payments).

Most other services specialize on a subset of what's needed (e.g. they're only doing invoicing, or only time-tracking, or only project management) and you have to go shopping for multiple solutions (and cross fingers that all of them integrate well with each other!). With Bunker my focus is on providing a complete, well-integrated experience.

So you could say my niche is "covering multiple niches" ;-)

I'd say that Bunker provides me passive income because my support burden is negligible and my churn-rate less then my conversion-rate. So if I wanted to I could go completely passive, but I'm committed to improve the app further and grow it.
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Interesting, would try to branch out some components with this thought :)
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It strikes me that there's a much simpler solution, and that is to use TypeScript. It has all the VS intellisense that's required and none of the boilerplate in the OP's solution.

http://www.typescriptlang.org
Ok, let's do a concrete example. All of this seems very hand-wavy to me.

Scenario: A client asks me to do support and maintenance on an internal accounts receivables tracking app. How do I justify asking 300/hour or whatever you guys are suggesting? How do I give them substantial business value from that?
PostgreSQL's spinlock implementation is very fast and scalable and not all supported platforms have good implementations of mutexes. The Linux futexes might be fast enough to replace PostgreSQL's spinlock implementation, but even that is not known yet.
> The wifi is on either for browsing or page syncing; it should be smart enough to turn off if you're not interested in either.

It's also on for auto-delivery of new books and periodicals. I like the fact that my Kindle is always ready to go with the latest things that I've bought without me needing to think about remembering to sync.
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No, they had to kill it because the iPad wouldn't run browser plugins. They then transitioned to a plugin free HTML5 mobile web to help all developers.
Actually, I've been considering how to do this for my next app.

Not split testing the sale price though, it will be free. (It's just too hard to get people to buy an app outright) I want to split test in-app purchases. I think this should be fairly straightforward to implement. The only downside is in the app store 2 different items would show as top in-app purchases with different prices. People might be upset about that, but I doubt anyone would notice.
Same here.

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Stash for our firm's repos behind the firewall.

And i have been using github for years, paid account, like others. Paid github vs Atlassian Stash ? Stash wins.
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The problem with Notch was that it was impossible to find out exactly what he was ranting about when he is fine with accelerating the demise of the PC by having his game run on the locked down iOS but not releasing it in the Windows 8 desktop store which is open.

Read this three part article about the confusion. http://www.withinwindows.com/2012/09/28/notch-doesnt-hate-wi...
> This isn't about skeuomorphic design or lack thereof

"They don't look like buttons" is a complaint about lack of skeumorphism. An extremely common and accepted case, but a case nonetheless.

Metro-like buttons do not look like 'real' buttons and, embedded in non-Metro content, don't look clickable. In a properly designed Metro UI they are unmistakably clickable and work fine in touch devices. Metro is still relatively new and takes some getting used to in the wild. But hey, there was a time when people complained about the lack of underlining in the text of button-looking clickable elements in web pages.

You are right also, in Metro a colored rectangle with a symbol and/or a short word is meant to be clickable. Non-clickable elements should look clearly different in content or in styling. That is fine.

Note: I'm not trying to defend Metro as 'better' or 'worse', only emphasize the fact that it's different.
Really liked the concept. Is it legal though?
Of course we're trying to replace it.

My feed is out there for anyone to follow.

http://links.scripting.com/rss.xml

What else can I do? The press doesn't want to write about this, presumably because I'm not going to pay any money to sponsor their conferences.

I just don't have the power to get everyone to provide feeds, if I did, I would.
I personally prefer first engagements to be on-site, so that I can meet the team and be something other than the voice on the telephone, but I've done it remotely, too.

You make mobile apps for businesses, right? So you're getting their brands carried on the trusted device that their customers hold their entire social selves on, which is carried in their front pocket 24/7, which they caress when in bed and which they can't bear to be separated from even when in the bathroom. And your app. Their brand. With them the entire time.

Or, if you're making apps with a transactional component to them, like say the Chipotle online ordering app, "Um, it's going to make you several hundred million dollars this year. This will be mentioned in your annual report. You're going to look like a hero for greenlighting this project." works, too.
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I've just made the switch after finding out about prezto from this thread. The reason the upgrade process isn't documented is that, unfortunately, there isn't one. You just have to remove oh-my-zsh and install prezto, then move over any modifications you've made manually.

That said, it wasn't much work, and I've been using it for the past couple hours and I really like it!
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The problem is that PostgreSQL is not the only software that does this. I believe at least both Oracle and Erlang's etstables also have own implementations of spinlocks which might be affected by this change. There could be plenty of software broken by this Kernel change.

I did not see anyone in the lkml discussion blaming PostgreSQL for having an own spinlock implementation.
It's close enough to the weekend so you don't have to worry too much about a cheeky extra beer and at the same time it's fairly convenient for most people to swing by after work.
> By the time ie10 becomes the majority of ie market share
it will never happen.
May want to take a look at ServiceStack, nice lightweight alternative to MVC with an extensive architecture providing for super easy and high performance ORM, JSON/JSV serialization/de-serialization, POCO DTO's with no-effort endpoints!

http://www.servicestack.net/
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Device Anywhere might be what you want. They connect real phones to their system for you to use, and have a large variety of models (or at least had - I haven't used them in a couple of years). They're expensive, but worth it for the convenience.
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That seems to be specifically allowed. Apps that help people automatically share stories about content as they consume it, such as the music you are listening to, can be good experiences when apps create clear expectations for the user of what is being shared and when.